Mayoral candidate in front of more than 800 supporters in Congress: “Keep it up or start again” – Many grandees there, including Schüssel: “I am a fan of Florian”
The citizens’ alliance ‘The New Innsbruck’ with mayoral candidate and now outgoing ÖVP State Secretary Florian Tursky started the intensive phase of the election campaign for the municipal elections on April 14 with a major kick-off event on Monday evening for more than 800 sympathizers at the Innsbruck Congress . Tursky called for a direct duel with Georg Willi, mayor of the Green Party: “Willi or me. “’Keep up the good work’ or the ‘new beginning’”.
“No more than three candidates”
In his nearly thirty-minute speech in the Dogana Hall, Tursky portrayed the compassionate doer who wants to use vision to guide the Tyrolean capital back to its former strength after “six lost years” under Willi. There are “no more than three candidates who have a chance at the second election for mayor,” Tursky explained, referring – as he did at a poster presentation two weeks ago – to himself, Willi and FPÖ mayoral candidate Markus Lassenberger, with Willi apparently the strongest saw competitors. He did not include the renegade ex-ÖVP deputy mayor Johannes Anzengruber, who is running his own list, and, as before, he did not mention him by name.
“Marching together”
Innsbruck needs a citizen mayor again. “Someone who can do it does not want to do it alone,” said Tursky, who announced his resignation as State Secretary for Digitalization this week, thus virtually announcing the duel with Willi. But to do this – “and I say this especially in ÖVP circles” – we must “stick together and march together” in the coming weeks, the 35-year-old warned his supporters.
“This mayor can’t do it,” Tursky attacked Willi head-on. There are failures everywhere; Innsbruck has lost much of its status as a ‘cosmopolitan city’ in the past six years. The state capital is “not a location for political experiments.” The ‘free play of forces’ that recently prevailed failed. Innsbruck needs ‘governability’ and a ‘mayor who sets the boundaries’. He will be the last.
Some tips and swipes at the governing Greens and Willi were also included. They have ensured that there are now “more demonstrations than groups of tourists” on Innsbruck’s boulevard, Maria-Thérèsien-Strasse.
Kom: “Fan of Florian”
The start of “the New Innsbruck” in Congress turned out to be a small state party conference of the Tyrolean ÖVP. Everything was used, including prominent names, to boost Tursky, who according to the polls is slightly behind him. Former Chancellor and ÖVP Chairman Wolfgang Schüssel acted as a kind of ‘whipper’, whose performance just before Tursky was widely applauded. “I am a fan of Florian. Florian can do it,” Schüssel said in his fifteen-minute speech. This cannot cover “just one topic”, but has a broad basis. “Origin and future” – that is what distinguishes the residents of Innsbruck and Tyrol – and Tursky can guarantee that.
The 35-year-old Tursky – former office manager of former Tyrolean governor Günther Platter, who, like his predecessors Herwig van Staa and Wendelin Weingartner, was present – announced his candidacy at the end of September last year and stated that he would return to Tyrol politics after the vote . A reunion of the ÖVP and the former spin-off ‘For Innsbruck’ had previously been in the works for months. Ultimately, the orange “The New Innsbruck” was launched, which is worn by the two groups and the seniors’ association.
Source: Krone
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